Arikomban Space

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  Ishaaq’s latest collection of songs under the banner Ishaaq Aarkistra (a Swedish twist on the Urdu word for “orchestra”) are his most ambitious and expansive to date. They saw him assemble a cast of his favourite musicians in one of the world’s top recording studios, to improvise freely and at length on drums, synth, tabla, flute, pedal steel, and vocals, letting the mood and the spirit guide them. Ishaaq and Haapalainen then painstakingly chopped up and edited the live recordings to create new, deeply layered, textured and immersive compositions, full of pulsing grooves, hip-hop breakbeats, psychedelic soundscapes and positive energy. To make an album this way had been, says Ishaaq, “a dream of mine for a long time… since I learned that Can and Miles Davis and others made some of their strongest music this way”.